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Title: American architecture
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ble here, it is because Chicagois so new, and it is in the newer quarters of older townsthat it is to be seen. It is quite as general on the Westside of New York. Its prevalence is again in great partdue to the influence of Richardson, and one is inclinedto welcome it as at least tending to provide a commonand understood way of working for architectural carvers,and the badge of something like a common style for build-ings that have little else in common. The facility withwhich its spiky leafage can be used for surface decora-tion tempts designers to provide surfaces for its decora-tion, in such structural features as capitals and corbels,at the cost of the modellino- which is so much more ex- 166 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE pressive and so much more troublesome, when a merecushion will do better as a basis for Byzantine orna-ment. For the rest, the clever and ingenious features whichone often comes upon in the residential streets of Chi-cago, and the thoroughly studied fronts that one comes
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A BYZANTINE CORBEL.Henry Ives Cobb, Architect. GLIMPSES OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE 157 upon SO much more seldom, would excite neither morenor less surprise if they were encountered in the streetsof any older American town. But from what has beensaid it will be seen that in every department of building,except only the ecclesiastical, Chicago has already ex-amples to show that should be of great value to its futuregrowth in stimulating its architects to produce and inteaching its public to appreciate. GLIMPSES OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE II.—ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS TT is just thirty years since Anthony Trollope ascend-■^ ed the Mississippi to the head of navigation and theFalls of St. Anthony, and recorded his impressions ofthe works of nature and of man along the shores of thatriver. As might perhaps have been expected, he ad-mired with enthusiasm the works of nature, and as mightcertainly have been expected, he found little to admirein the handiwork of man. I protest that of all therive

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